Jul 6, 2010 9:38 PM

About 2 months ago I made a solitary bee house out of home grown bamboo tied together with plastic cable ties, which worked very well. At least 7 tubes have been taken by leafcutters; 5 have been sealed and the other two are still being stocked with eggs. Do think that the bee in the attached photo is a megachile centuncularis? Just after I took the photo, another bee flew back to the house empty handed, stole a bit of the leaf cap from another finished tube and stuck it down its own tube.